December 2018 Eden Prairie Rent Report

Welcome to the December 2018 Eden Prairie Rent Report. Eden Prairie rents remained steady over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Eden Prairie rental market, including comparisons to similar cities nationwide.

December 2018 Eden Prairie Rent Report

Welcome to the December 2018 Eden Prairie Rent Report. Eden Prairie rents remained steady over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Eden Prairie rental market, including comparisons to similar cities nationwide.

Eden Prairie rents increased over the past month

Eden Prairie rents have increased 0.1% over the past month, and have increased moderately by 2.0% in comparison to the same time last year. Currently, median rents in Eden Prairie stand at $1,420 for a one-bedroom apartment and $1,800 for a two-bedroom. Eden Prairie's year-over-year rent growth leads the state average of 1.8%, as well as the national average of 1.3%.

Many large cities nationwide show more affordable rents compared to Eden Prairie

As rents have increased slightly in Eden Prairie, a few large cities nationwide have seen rents grow more quickly. Compared to most large cities across the country, Eden Prairie is less affordable for renters.

Eden Prairie's median two-bedroom rent of $1,800 is above the national average of $1,180. Nationwide, rents have grown by 1.3% over the past year compared to the 2.0% increase in Eden Prairie.

While Eden Prairie's rents rose slightly over the past year, the city of Baltimore saw a decrease of 1.2%.

Renters will generally find more expensive prices in Eden Prairie than most large cities. For example, Tulsa has a median 2BR rent of $820, where Eden Prairie is more than twice that price.

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Methodology - Recent Updates:

Data from private listing sites, including our own, tends to skew toward luxury apartments, which introduces sample bias when estimates are calculated directly from these listings. To address these limitations, we’ve recently made major updates to our methodology, which we believe have greatly improved the accuracy and reliability of our estimates.

Read more about our new methodology below, or see a more detailed post here.

Methodology:

Apartment List is committed to making our rent estimates the best and most accurate available. To do this, we start with reliable median rent statistics from the Census Bureau, then extrapolate them forward to the current month using a growth rate calculated from our listing data. In doing so, we use a same-unit analysis similar to Case-Shiller’s approach, comparing only units that are available across both time periods to provide an accurate picture of rent growth in cities across the country.

Our approach corrects for the sample bias inherent in other private sources, producing results that are much closer to statistics published by the Census Bureau and HUD. Our methodology also allows us to construct a picture of rent growth over an extended period of time, with estimates that are updated each month.

About Rent Reports:

Apartment List publishes monthly reports on rental trends for hundreds of cities across the U.S. We intend these reports to be a source of reliable information that help renters and policymakers make sound decisions, and we invest significant time and effort in gathering and analyzing rent data. Our work is covered regularly by journalists across the country.

We are continuously working to improve our methodology and data, with the goal of providing renters with the information that they need to make the best decisions.